"rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign."

We discussed a variation on this last night and the Hopeheads agree with me that Obama's presidential ambitions are more important to him and his followers than the lives of the troops or our fiscal strength. That's why he didn't try to filibuster and block supplemental funding for the Blunder, according to my friends here. He prefers having the war as an issue rather than actually doing anything beyond talk to end it. I see the same things on the economy, bewailing the results of inflation in words while piling fuel on the fire in his Senate votes.